She is shortly afterward killed in Ame by Tobi. Konan becomes the new leader of Amegakure after Pain's death and swears Ame's support to Naruto's cause. Pain ultimately dies in Konoha, giving his life to aid Naruto Uzumaki's aspirations for peace. Despite this, he is able to get word of recent events in Ame back to Konoha, which Pain tries to prevent from spreading further, among other reasons, by destroying Konoha. Jiraiya, in the course of his investigation into Akatsuki, infiltrates the village and, upon being discovered, is killed by Pain.
Pain uses Amegakure as his base of operations for his work with Akatsuki. In the anime, Ame ninja travelling abroad are instructed to perpetuate this belief. Knowledge of Amegakure's civil war was not common throughout the ninja world, and news of Pain's victory was completely unknown to the point that other villages believed Hanzō to still be in charge. The only thing that Ame's citizens could conclusively say about Pain was that it only rained on Sundays or when he had to be away from the village. None ever saw Pain directly, his decrees instead communicated to Ame's citizens by his "angel", Konan, who came to be revered almost as highly as Pain himself. Pain became Ame's new leader, revered as a god by the populace because of his contributions during the civil war. Despite this, loyalists to Hanzō still emerged from time to time, though all were crushed by Pain. Pain then went on to kill anyone even remotely connected to Hanzō, from close family to distant acquaintances, so that none would ever emerge to take revenge. With Pain's near-godly power and rumours that he was multiple people, Hanzō and his forces were overthrown, with Pain being the one to personally kill Hanzō. Led by an individual known only as " Pain", the rebel faction symbolised their rejection of Hanzō by placing a horizontal slash across their forehead protector. Pain overthrows Hanzō, taking control of Amegakure.Īt some point after the end of the war, a civil war broke out in the village to remove Hanzō from power.
After Akatsuki's leader, Yahiko, died, Nagato retaliated and slaughtered all of Hanzō's men, though Hanzō himself escaped. Claiming to be interested in cooperating with Akatsuki, Hanzō, with support from Danzō, ambushed Akatsuki's three primary members and attempted to kill them all. In the anime, this fear was exacerbated by Konoha's Danzō Shimura. When, during the Third Shinobi World War, a group called Akatsuki began advocating for peace between the warring Konoha, Iwa, and Suna, Hanzō interpreted this as a threat to his rule. Despite his power, Hanzō was deeply paranoid and would rarely appear in public for fear of being assassinated. To be admitted to the village, visitors, even those coming for Chūnin Exams held in Amegakure, must go through a number of security checks and are under constant surveillance during their stay.Īmegakure was led for many years by Hanzō, a notoriously powerful shinobi during the Second Shinobi World War he slaughtered an entire Konoha platoon, sparing only the young Sannin.
Amegakure has adopted a heavy isolationist policy because of this, leading to the village's defences being abnormally impenetrable. Because of Amegakure's location between three of the Five Great Shinobi Countries, it has frequently served as a battleground during the various ninja wars, making most of its population war refugees.